Cold War Hot Houses - Beatriz Colomnia.

An examination of the status of architecture in post war in the US.
-The cold war was a hot house in the way that it produced new spaces for living.
Every aspect of post war american life has become domestic - architecture in terms of massive structures has lost its power to change. now a small domestic object can have infinite power in comparison. "Objects of everyday life involved more radical transformations than the most extreme architectural proposals."

"Public Space could only be sold as a form of domestic privacy similar to the suburbs."

In our society today there is a break down between the idea of public and private place. What goes on in the public is now relitavely domesticated wheras the private life seems to be a copy image of others, for example, television is supplied to the public but viewed in private. Public spaces become domestic and more associated with imagery rather than experience.

Rather than examine the impact of the cold war on american society, this reading seems more to try and define why on earth american society has become more domesticated. surely this can't be laid fully down to cold war paranoia?